If conditions under which Nauclidas nigra is kept are not suitable, the female will drop her ootheca anywhere (Bunting, 1956).
The female licks up the drop of fluid that oozes from the oviposition puncture.
Undoubtedly other oviparous species that drop their oothecae long before the eggs hatch also make some attempt to conceal the oothecae by placing them in crevices or covering them with debris.
Grant that the mote of knowledge in my spirit Escape desire and the lowly clay; Grant that Thine ancient gift, this drop of wisdom, Merge with Thy mighty sea.
Now hast thou abandoned the drop of life and come to the sea of the Life-Bestower.
In the ocean he findeth a drop, in a drop he beholdeth the secrets of the sea.
But why not dropinto the dressing station, here, sir, right here in this old mill, which stands at the cross-roads?
Well, they just love to have him drop in now and they tell him things.
They then place over him two enormous serpents, who drop their venom on his limbs, and he is to remain exposed to this continual torture until the end of the world.
This ring so bright boasts a wondrous might, ’Tis a fact in the north well known, That eight other rings, on each ninth night, From the parent ring drop down.
He has brought me to this," he said so slowly and evilly that each word seemed a drop of venom.
The outside edge of it is in the welter of the shoreless Atlantic, and from this edge there is a sheer drop into almost unsounded depths.
There, under the cliff where it hangs over, you can post two-thirds of the men; and as the storm comes the other way, not a drop will reach them.
Then advancing to the window, he opened it, fastened one end of the rope tight to the iron bar which ran up the centre of the casement, and suffered the other to drop gently down on the outside.
We have not had a drop of rain these two months, and very little dew, so that everything is as parched as pulse.
You lie," said the other officer, approaching; "a respectable lady saw it drop from your pocket.
The princess wished to infuse drop by drop, the poison with which she was swelling, and make her victim suffer as long as possible, feeling certain that she could not escape.
The Working-men carried to the hospitals are poisoned, because the number of patients is too great; every night, Boats filled with corpses, drop down the Seine.
Catherine, let's drop it: you will make me say some folly, and there are certain things which dear, good creatures like you need never know.
Unlike most theatres in China, it had a curtain which was closed between the acts, also wing slides and drop scenes.
She said: "Well it was quite an old one in any case and the top was ready to drop off at any time; it so happens that you were the one to wipe it, and of course it came off.
Stopping only to drop a couple of bombs on the battery 'which had bespattered the wings of the second machine with shrapnel, they noticed the second train pulling up quickly, and the soldiers also leaping from the carriages.
And not a drop of beer from one week's end to the other?
I had a heavy parcel of books on my knee, and to drop them heavily upon his foot had been, as it were, the accident of a moment.
As woods endure a constant change of leaves, Our language too a change of words receives: Year after year drop off the ancient race, While young ones bud and flourish in their place.
Thou makest old Thug's warrior drop his spear, And should that fair face beam on me eternal, Eternal I would swear the sun was good And OENE was no Queen.
Claudia seemed quite willing to let Stafford drop out of the conversation.
Better hang up here, for he'll drop in sooner or later.
Was there no thunderbolt to drop down from that dark and looming mountain upon the silent cabin where tragedy had entered?
You drop in here with rather peculiar credentials, so to speak--as my helper and as a man with no religion!
When he got down upon that one it was necessary for Shefford to drop him a third stick.
It was necessary for the Indian to go up and drop the rope, which was looped around her, and then, with him pulling from above and Shefford assisting Jane as she climbed, she was finally gotten up without mishap.
The floor of rock below led out in a ledge, with a sheer drop to the valley level.
Shefford felt as tired as he had ever been, but he did not think he could soon drop into slumber, and in fact he did not want to.
You can swim your boat home under my coils where the water is calm," the Craken said, "for she is so extremely old now, that if you do not take care she will drop to pieces before you get back to the present time.
As she said this the Queen stepped on to the carpet, and all the flowers began to drop down.
The drop missed the tongue and landed full in her eye, whence it joined the stream trickling over her nose into her lap.
You could have heard a pin dropand all eyes were fixed on her expectantly.
Then she swam back to the dock holding the flag above her head well out of the water so that not a dropstained it.
He had made assurance doubly sure, and his next quick move was to lean forward, blow out the candle, drop his pistol near the body, that had fallen heavily, and fling open the window.
My children were with us--young, vigorous, American savages, who have a superabundance of the American spirit although they have not a drop of American blood in their veins.
In common with many Americans, my guests believed that this matter of irrigation is as easy as turning water from a faucet into a basin; and that all a man has to do is to drop his seed into the ground and watch it grow.
You, in my opinion, carry your ideas of delicacy too far when you propose to drop your pay while the recovery of your health necessarily requires your absence from the service.
These are inquiries not wholly congenial with the compliments of the new year, so we will drop them.
Let us, therefore, drop the subject, lest it lead to another on which I have imposed silence on myself.
I inquired, anxious for an excuse to drop a word into the ear of Mr. Gryce.
Was I mistaken when I thought I saw a hand drop crumbs from that window?
There's only one thing that rather adulterates the felicity--a drop of gall in the cup of mead!
My head was certainly stronger than my Cousin's; he went as far as the third bottle--the next drop was on the floor!
Mitsos will drop it into the fountain, for it must be tepid.
Drop that nonsense, dear cousin," he said, "and come to my tent for a talk.
Her decks and rigging were alive with the sailors, who were swarming over the masts and furling sail, or stood ready to drop the anchor on the word of command.
A drop or two of the stuff splashed on him, and he smelled coffee.
Even lone-wolf bombing planes, flying forty thousand feet up, never came this far to drop their eggs upon inviting targets or upon those utterly blank, innocent-seeming places where munitions of war were now manufactured underground.
Someone had forgotten how long it takes a bomb to drop eight miles, and the Wabbly had crawled under one.
The bombers drop eggs to help the Wabbly defend itself.
And somebody forgot the exact length of time it takes a bomb to drop eight miles.
Quick as thought Jonathan covered the foremost Indian, and with the crack of his rifle saw the redskin drop his gun, stop in his mad run, stagger sideways, and fall.
It falls slowly at first, but seems to gather momentum; the spin becomes wilder and wilder, the drop faster and faster.
Twice we see enemy machines through rifts in the clouds, but each time we dive towards them they refuse battle and remain at a height of some thousand feet, ready to drop even lower, if they can lure us down through the barrage of A.
For two thousand feet the irregular drop continued, and the observer gave up hope.
As these hurried to his assistance, they saw an enemy plane turn over, show a white, gleaming belly, and drop in zig-zags.
I looked at him hopefully, for the range was very short, and I expected to see him drop towards the ground at several miles a minute.
Now the bombers drop below the clouds to a height convenient for their job.
Evidently, two of the formation are in difficulties, for they drop farther and farther behind.
